Hair-dressing device.



PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

A. SHEDLOGK. HAIR DRES$ING DEVICE.

APPLIUATION-IILBD NOV. 20. 1906.

UNITED sTArEs PATENT OFFICE.

' ALFRED SHEDLOCK, OF JERSEY OITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO MAX Gr.

OOHN AND COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A OOPARTNERSHIP.

HAIR-DRESSING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Sept. 18, 1906.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED SnEDLooK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, Hudson county, State of New Jersey, have invented Improvements in HairDressing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of combs or hair-dressing devices having looking means adapted to be manipulated when the combs are suitably located in the hair to provide a fastener for their secure retention in set positions.

It consists of the combination, with a comb of ordinary construction comprising a back or body portion and a row of teeth extending from one of its edges, of a fiat bar attached to the back of the comb provided with looking or hair-fastening teeth and adapted to slide on the back of the comb in a longitudinally inclined direction, the construction and arrangement of the parts being such that when the flat bar is in its outer inoperative position the locking-teeth will be behind or within the plane of the back of the comb,

thus leaving the teeth of the comb unob-v structed for free entrance in the hair, and when the bar is moved into operative position after the comb is suitably located the locking-teeth will pass in angular direction through the hair contained between the upper portion of the teeth adjacent to the back of the comb.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation showing the inner side of a comb provided with the improved hair-locking means representing the outer inoperative position. Fig. 2 represents the outer side of the comb with the hair-locking means in the inner operative position. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken in the line 3 3, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 represents a modification in the construction of the locking means.

The device of this invention is of a nature adapted to be applied to any form or style of comb having a longitudinal back or body portion and a row of teeth extending from one edge thereof. The comb illustrated comprises a back a and a row of teeth I). The outer side of the back is shown rounded, and it may be ornamented as desired.

On the inside of the back is located the hair-locking means, the same consisting of a fiat bar 0, having inclined slots d of any deslots.

sired number, two being shown, and a series of widely-separated hair-locking teeth 6, which extend downwardly from the lower edge of the bar cin inclined direction substantially the same as the inclination of the slots (Z. Through these slots (1 headed studs f pass and are securely fastened in the back a of the comb. This arrangement affords a suitable means for guiding the hair-locking teeth e, as hereinafter described. The bar 0 is somewhat longer than the back a of the comb, the ends 9 showing as lateral extensions beyond the ends of the comb, as at Fig.

2, thus providing means by which the locking device may be manipulated.

The slots (1 are shown formed partly in two .of the locking-teeth h, which are made wider than the other teeth e to accommodate the The object of so arranging the slots being to permit of the attachment of the locking device to combs having comparatively narrow backs. In wide or deep back combs the whole of the slots may be formed in the bar 0.

With the locking device set in outer position, as shown at Fig. 1, the teeth I) of the comb are entirely free, with the spaces between them unobstructed, and the comb may be readily applied to the hair as are ordinary common combs, and when the comb ;is suitably located in the hair pressure applied to the laterally-projecting end 9 of the locking device causes it by its guiding-slots (Z to move diagonally down behind the comb, the teeth 6 and h passing in inclined direction athwart the teeth I) of the comb and freely entering the hair held between the upper portions of the teeth I) with the least possible disturbance of the hair and so securely looks or fastens the hair in closed spaces formed by the upper edges of the teeth 6 and h and the sides of the upper portions of the combteeth I).

The modification shown at Fig. 4 relates to the shape of the guiding-slots of the locking device and the locking-teeth e h. This view shows a part of the hair-dressing device, but sufficient thereof to illustrate the modification. The guiding-slots i of the locking device are curved, as are also the teeth j 7c, in-

stead of being straight, as previously described, the teeth by this formation being caused to enter the hair diagonally curvilinearly instead of in inclined direct lines relatively to the longitude of the comb.

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I claim as my invention 7 1. A hair-dressing device, consisting of a comb comprising a back and a row of teeth extending therefrom, a locking device comprising a flat bar located against and arranged in the same general direction as the back and having angularly-arranged teeth at one of its edges and means for connecting the locking device to the comb and guiding it to move in the angular direction of the inclined teeth, with the bar maintaining substantial parallelism to the back of the comb.

2. In a hair-dressing device, the combination of a comb comprising a back and a row of teeth, with a series of angularly-arranged locking-teeth and a bar carrying them and means for controlling and guiding said locking-teeth, whereby in one position they lie diagonally athwart the portions of the combteeth adjacent to the back with their carrying-bar located against the back and in another position lie against the back of the comb away from the teeth thereof.

3. A hair-dressing device, consisting of a comb comprising a back and a row of teeth extending therefrom, a locking device comi prising a fiat bar located against and arranged in the same general direction as the back and having angularly-arranged teeth at one of its edges and means for connecting the locking device to the comb andguiding it to move in the angular direction ofthe inclined teeth, the said bar of the locking device having ends projecting beyond the ends of the back of the comb, whereby the locking device is manipulated.

4. The combination with a comb, of a looking device consisting of a flat bar arranged against the back of the comb provided with slots formed diagonally through it and having a series of teeth angularly arranged corre sponding to the direction of the slots, and

teeth formed partly through the flat bar and partly through some of the teeth, and headed studs secured to the back of the comb and extending through said diagonal slots.

6. The combination with a comb, of a locking device comprising a bar arranged against and in the same general direction as the back of the comb and having a series of curved teeth angularly arranged relatively to the longitude of the comb, and means for controlling and guiding the locking device whereby the curved teeth are caused to pass athwart the upper portions of the teeth of the comb in the direction of their curvature when the locking device is moved in one direction, and to pass within the plane of the comb when the locking device is moved in the other direction.

7. The combination with a comb, of a locking device consisting of a flat bar arranged against the back of the comb rovided with curved slots formed diagonal y through it and having a series of curved teeth angularly arranged corresponding to the direction of the slots, and headed studs passing through the slots and secured to the back of the comb.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 13th day of November,

ALFRED SHEDLOOK. Witnesses:

ARTHUR C. BLATZ, J. C. MOKIBBIN. 

